by Pamela Morales | Jun 25, 2018 | News, Programs & Special Events
What if you could take a trip from Rio Grande City to Brownsville on a steamboat loaded with bales of cotton, ready to export past a Union blockade in the Gulf of Mexico? Or, get on horseback, and join vaqueros on a cattle drive north through dusty trails and open...
by Pamela Morales | Jun 13, 2018 | Collections, News
By Kelly Francis-Love MOSTHistory Collection Series: Fern Catherine Welch In the United States in the early 1900s, women were still considered second-class citizens. With the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920, they earned the right to vote, but did not...
by Pamela Morales | Jun 8, 2018 | News, Programs & Special Events
Local curandera to present the culture of curanderismo June 17 Have you ever brewed oregano tea for a stomach ache, touched other people’s things to ward off “mal de ojo,” or been soothed by a parent with a healing: “Sana. Sana. Colita de rana. Si no sana hoy, sana...
by Pamela Morales | Jun 1, 2018 | News, Programs & Special Events
Imagine a time where great flocks of mammoths grazed on the prairies of South Texas. How would the first peoples have hunted these great beasts? Or what if you were with Colonel José de Escandon on his survey of the Rio Grande? How would life change for your family in...
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